Martin Bormann, deputy to Adolf Hitler, is alive, resides in South America, and visits Europe once every year, according to disclosures made here today by Angel Alcazar de Velasco, a Spaniard who was formerly Spain’s press attache in London. Velasco, who is 52, had won from Hitler the award of the Iron Cross “for services performed.”
According to Velasco, he was the chief of Nazi counter-espionage in Spain in 1940, and continued to work for the Nazis when Spain sent him to the post in London, where he served in 1941 and 1942. He said that, in 1945, a Nazi agent, bearing the code name of “Felipi,” approached him in Madrid, and told him to await the arrival of “a most important personage” within a month. The person turned out to be Bormann, he said, and he took Bormann in a submarine from a fishing port in northwest Spain to southern Argentina, near Patagonia. The voyage, he said, took 21 days.
Velasco said he last met Bormann in Ecuador in 1958. The Hitler deputy by that time, he said, had aged considerably, and had changed his appearance through plastic surgery on his face.
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